How Sweet It Is! 50 Years Ago Everyone Watched The Jackie Gleason Show & Now You Can Watch It In Color

"How swee-eet it is!"

THIS
FEBRUARY, TIME LIFE DELIVERS YET ANOTHER

SMASH-HIT TV
VARIETY SHOW UNSEEN FOR

MORE
THAN 50 YEARS!

THE
JACKIE GLEASON SHOW IN COLOR

"The Great One" Makes His Triumphant Return
With The Inaugural Home Entertainment Release of His Titular Show, a DVD
Single ($9.95srp) Featuring Four
Never-Before-Released Episodes, Beautifully Remastered and in Full Color,
Three Honeymooners Sketches Not Seen Since they Originally
Aired, Guest Stars Including Milton Berle, Red Buttons, George Carlin,
Nipsey Russell, Phil Silvers, Florence Henderson, and More!

Fairfax, VA
(January 11, 2018) - Everything about Jackie Gleason was
big: his huge talent, his outsized personality, and his expansive waist
line. Even bigger was "The Jackie Gleason Show," his
successful TV Variety show, taped in color from beautiful Miami Beach from
1966 to 1970. And, on February 6, following their acclaimed, recent
releases of THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW: THE LOST EPISODES, THE RED SKELTON SHOW
IN COLOR and, THE BOB HOPE TV SPECIALS, the TV DVD archivists at Time Life
proudly release the inaugural DVD release of THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW IN
COLOR, one of the '60s most beloved programs - and unseen for nearly 50
years!

Gleason was everyone's
working-class hero, and his smash-hit show delivered an hour of non-stop
entertainment every single week. Enthralled home audiences were
treated to entertainment of the highest order - singing, dancing, hilarious
comedy and Jackie at his very best as Ralph Kramden and on stage with all
his famous friends - Milton Berle, Red Buttons, George Carlin, Nipsey Russell,
Phil Silvers and more - and all in brilliant color! The single disc
release of THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW IN COLOR features four
never-before-released, remastered episodes of the show - including three
unreleased Honeymooners sketches - all unseen for more than 50
years!

"The Jackie Gleason
Show" had been broadcast live and later taped in New York City since
1952, but in 1964, Gleason wanted to be based where he could play golf all
year round. Hank Meyer, a longtime South Florida publicist, knew just
the spot and convinced Jackie to bring his show to Miami Beach, the sun and
fun capital of the world. However, back in the '60s, it was a novel
undertaking to broadcast from Miami Beach, and more than a hundred families
relocated to stay with the show. Plus, there was barely any
production infrastructure in South Florida, which all had to be created by
Jackie and his team. However, it all paid off and the revamped show
was a huge success!

"The Jackie Gleason
Show" delivered Gleason's most indelible and legendary creation -
Ralph Kramden - as well as an unforgettable gallery of characters he
himself created and fine-tuned. But, most memorably, Gleason and Art Carney
revived their Honeymooners roles, with Sheila MacRae and Jane Kean
added as the new Alice and Trixie, all presented in glorious color for the
first time.

Taped in Miami
Beach until the final season in 1970, the master tapes had resided in a
vault in South Florida - until now! So cue the travelin' music and
heed the big man's message before he glides offstage: "And awaaay we
go!" And how!

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THE
JACKIE GLEASON SHOW IN COLOR (SINGLE DISC)

Type: DVD/Single

Running Time:
165 mins.

Rating:
N/A

Genre: TV
DVD

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
(4:3)

Audio: Stereo

The 411:

Jackie Gleason from the Honeymooners had his own variety show 50 years ago and while I was only 1 when this show was on I know all about it!

What I love about these shows from the 60s is that the jokes are clean and funny, the men all wear suits, the sets were so colorful. What I find interesting is that everyone smokes and can we talk about those microphone wires that take up the stage ready to trip everyone holding one.

This DVD includes 4 episodes of The Jackie Gleason Show as well as 3 remade Honeymooners Sketches (the Honeymooners was done in the 50s). Alice and Trixie are played by different actresses but Art Carney is there as Norton.

If you like comedy, entertainment and watching performances and skits by some of the biggest stars of the day like Frankie Avalon, Florence Henderson (Ms. Brady), Nipsy Russell and Red Buttons who is featured in 3 of the 4 episodes.